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Hi David,

I’ve emailed you. Thanks again for your help,

Dave.

Hi David,

I’ve downloaded and installed the development version (Media Library Assistant v2.31 (20160714)) and entered template:[+author:first_name+] [+author:last_name+] into the EXIF box in Taxonomy Term Mapping (Field title: categories).

Unfortunately I end up with a category of [+author:first_name+] [+author:last_name+]. I’m still on wordpress version 4.5.2 if that helps.

Also, on a related note i tried using “template:[+post_author+]” and that gives me results of 1,2,3 etc, but it only works when I upload using wordpress media uploader, not Frontend Uploader or TT Guest Post Submit.
This is an issue as I need to use one of these (or a similar plugin) for my user uploads.

Dave

That would be great David, thanks for your help.

Hi David,

Yeah, that sounds really useful. The gallery should show “All” images automatically, but have filtering buttons above to only show images by “Dave”, “Jane” etc.

Users have to be logged in to see the site, and the User names are (I believe) going to be their nicknames anyway, so I don’t think we’ll need to change the author ID with PHP. If I can assign the “author” as a category or tag of the image that would be perfect.

Thanks for replying by the way, your support is much appreciated.

Dave

Firsh,

Thanks for that. I’ll look at a different way round it .

I’ve previuously tried adding a class during the frontend upload (first using the plugin “TT Guest Post Submit” (the free version), then with “Frontend Uploader”) but neither seemed to add it. Very frustrating.

JIG is amazing by the way, works really well.

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick response, and sorry that I haven’t replied sooner (I’ve been snowed under with other jobs). Just to clarify what I’m trying to do:

I’m allowing multiple users to upload pictures, and I’m using JIG to automatically display the entire media library and then filter_by authors. I know JIG doesn’t currently support author filtering (although it works really well with filtering by category), so I’m trying to combine the functionality of your plugin with JIG.

Here’s the JIG shortcode I’m currently using:

[justified_image_grid ids=* height_deviation=200 filterby=category filter_style=buttons filter_orderby=title_asc load_more=hybrid load_more_mobile=click exclude=965,966,968,901,897,896,884,883,878,830,921,1048,1049,1053]

As you can see I’m currently using “filterby=category” and adding categories ‘back of house’, but this is not quite the automated solution I’m looking for.

Could I either A) combine the functionality of both galleries (with regards to filtering), or B) get Media Library Assistant to automatically force a category onto the image that matches the author name?